Resilience and positive affect are related to the experience of fatigue in patients with a rheumatic disease.

Background. Fatigue is a common symptom in patients with a rheumatic disease. Resilience, the ability to bounce back or recover from stress, has been found to be related to lower fatigue in patients with cancer, traumatic brain injury, cardiac disease and fibromyalgia (see e.g. [1]) Objectives. To study the relationships of resilience and the resilience related factors positive affect, acceptance and engaged living with fatigue in patients with...